Post-install "install.js" failing

[kgmmm]

Ubuntu 20.04.1.

Running npm install after a fresh SvelteKit init. Trying to install esbuild globally throws the same error.

~/new-app$ npm install
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path /home/user/new-app/node_modules/esbuild
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c node install.js

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/user/.npm/_logs/2022-01-29T10_59_50_034Z-debug-0.log

End of the log file

399 info run esbuild@0.13.15 postinstall node_modules/esbuild node install.js
400 info run esbuild@0.13.15 postinstall { code: 1, signal: null }
401 timing reify:rollback:createSparse Completed in 134ms
402 timing reify:rollback:retireShallow Completed in 0ms
403 timing command:install Completed in 14611ms
404 verbose stack Error: command failed
404 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/promise-spawn/index.js:64:27)
404 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:390:28)
404 verbose stack     at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1064:16)
404 verbose stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:301:5)
405 verbose pkgid esbuild@0.13.15
406 verbose cwd /home/user/new-app
407 verbose Linux 5.13.0-27-generic
408 verbose argv "/snap/node/5770/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install"
409 verbose node v16.13.2
410 verbose npm  v8.3.2
411 error code 1
412 error path /home/user/new-app/node_modules/esbuild
413 error command failed
414 error command sh -c node install.js
415 verbose exit 1
416 timing npm Completed in 14831ms
417 verbose unfinished npm timer reify 1643453990251
418 verbose unfinished npm timer reify:build 1643454004551
419 verbose unfinished npm timer build 1643454004552
420 verbose unfinished npm timer build:deps 1643454004552
421 verbose unfinished npm timer build:run:postinstall 1643454004558
422 verbose unfinished npm timer build:run:postinstall:node_modules/esbuild 1643454004559
423 verbose code 1
424 error A complete log of this run can be found in:
424 error     /home/user/.npm/_logs/2022-01-29T10_59_50_034Z-debug-0.log

[evanw]

I assume from your description that the reproduction steps are to follow https://kit.svelte.dev/docs#introduction-getting-started. I can't reproduce this in my Ubuntu VM (Ubuntu 21.10):

$ npm init svelte@next my-app
Need to install the following packages:
  create-svelte@next
Ok to proceed? (y) y

create-svelte version 2.0.0-next.113

Welcome to SvelteKit!

This is beta software; expect bugs and missing features.

Problems? Open an issue on https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/issues if none exists already.

✔ Which Svelte app template? › SvelteKit demo app
✔ Use TypeScript? … No / Yes
✔ Add ESLint for code linting? … No / Yes
✔ Add Prettier for code formatting? … No / Yes

Your project is ready!

Install community-maintained integrations:
  https://github.com/svelte-add/svelte-adders

Next steps:
  1: cd my-app
  2: npm install (or pnpm install, etc)
  3: git init && git add -A && git commit -m "Initial commit" (optional)
  4: npm run dev -- --open

To close the dev server, hit Ctrl-C

Stuck? Visit us at https://svelte.dev/chat

$ cd my-app/
$ npm install

added 40 packages, and audited 41 packages in 10s

5 packages are looking for funding
  run `npm fund` for details

found 0 vulnerabilities

As you can see it works fine for me. So I'm marking this as unactionable because there isn't realistically anything I can do about this since I can't reproduce it. However, you can help out by debugging this yourself. Here are instructions: #1711 (comment)

[kgmmm]

Hi I tried my hand at debugging this, after testing different versions of node I found that updating to v17.4.0 seems to have fixed this issue for me. After updating node to v17.4.0 I was able to install esbuild using npm globally.

Edit: even though it says in the log file, thought it would be correct to mention I was previously using node v16.13.2

[evanw]

Were you able to figure out anything about the failure? How far does the install script get before it fails, and what causes the failure?

[kgmmm]

No sorry, was not been able to make any meaningful progress.

[fikus88]

Hi I tried my hand at debugging this, after testing different versions of node I found that updating to v17.4.0 seems to have fixed this issue for me. After updating node to v17.4.0 I was able to install esbuild using npm globally.

Edit: even though it says in the log file, thought it would be correct to mention I was previously using node v16.13.2

I can confirm that updating node to 17.4 fixed this issue for me too.

[evanw]

I was finally able to reproduce this issue by installing node via snap (more info in #1711) and I pushed out a fix in version 0.14.17. Does the latest esbuild release fix these installation issues for you?

[kgmmm]

Hi using node v16.13.2 via Snap and trying to install esbuild@0.14.17 and gives me the same error as before...

~/my-app$ npm i esbuild@0.14.17
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path /home/user/my-app/node_modules/@sveltejs/adapter-cloudflare/node_modules/esbuild
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c node install.js

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/user/.npm/_logs/2022-02-02T09_48_41_434Z-debug-0.log

Tail end of the Log File

745 timing build:link:node_modules/esbuild Completed in 4ms
746 timing build:link:node_modules/nanoid Completed in 4ms
747 timing build:link:node_modules/prettier Completed in 4ms
748 timing build:link:node_modules/rollup Completed in 4ms
749 timing build:link:node_modules/vite Completed in 4ms
750 timing build:link:node_modules/resolve Completed in 4ms
751 timing build:link Completed in 5ms
752 info run esbuild@0.14.17 postinstall node_modules/esbuild node install.js
753 info run esbuild@0.13.15 postinstall node_modules/@sveltejs/adapter-cloudflare/node_modules/esbuild node install.js
754 info run esbuild@0.13.15 postinstall node_modules/@sveltejs/adapter-netlify/node_modules/esbuild node install.js
755 info run esbuild@0.13.15 postinstall node_modules/@sveltejs/adapter-vercel/node_modules/esbuild node install.js
756 info run esbuild@0.13.15 postinstall node_modules/vite/node_modules/esbuild node install.js
757 info run esbuild@0.14.17 postinstall { code: 0, signal: null }
758 timing build:run:postinstall:node_modules/esbuild Completed in 203ms
759 info run esbuild@0.13.15 postinstall { code: 1, signal: null }
760 info run esbuild@0.13.15 postinstall { code: 1, signal: null }
761 info run esbuild@0.13.15 postinstall { code: 1, signal: null }
762 info run esbuild@0.13.15 postinstall { code: 1, signal: null }
763 timing reify:rollback:createSparse Completed in 331ms
764 timing reify:rollback:retireShallow Completed in 0ms
765 timing command:i Completed in 2254ms
766 verbose stack Error: command failed
766 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/promise-spawn/index.js:64:27)
766 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:390:28)
766 verbose stack     at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1064:16)
766 verbose stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:301:5)
767 verbose pkgid esbuild@0.13.15
768 verbose cwd /home/user/my-app
769 verbose Linux 5.13.0-28-generic
770 verbose argv "/snap/node/5770/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "i" "esbuild@0.14.17"
771 verbose node v16.13.2
772 verbose npm  v8.3.2
773 error code 1
774 error path /home/user/my-app/node_modules/@sveltejs/adapter-cloudflare/node_modules/esbuild
775 error command failed
776 error command sh -c node install.js
777 verbose exit 1
778 timing npm Completed in 2477ms
779 verbose unfinished npm timer reify 1643795321656
780 verbose unfinished npm timer reify:build 1643795323289
781 verbose unfinished npm timer build 1643795323289
782 verbose unfinished npm timer build:deps 1643795323289
783 verbose unfinished npm timer build:run:postinstall 1643795323299
784 verbose unfinished npm timer build:run:postinstall:node_modules/@sveltejs/adapter-cloudflare/node_modules/esbuild 1643795323316
785 verbose unfinished npm timer build:run:postinstall:node_modules/@sveltejs/adapter-netlify/node_modules/esbuild 1643795323332
786 verbose unfinished npm timer build:run:postinstall:node_modules/@sveltejs/adapter-vercel/node_modules/esbuild 1643795323348
787 verbose unfinished npm timer build:run:postinstall:node_modules/vite/node_modules/esbuild 1643795323364
788 verbose code 1
789 error A complete log of this run can be found in:
789 error     /home/user/.npm/_logs/2022-02-02T09_48_41_434Z-debug-0.log

[evanw]

Shoot. Thanks for checking. My change definitely did fix an issue for me so I guess there were multiple separate issues.

[evanw]

Wait. That log is saying that esbuild@0.14.17 succeeded. The thing that failed is esbuild@0.13.15. You're still installing the old version of esbuild that has this issue, but it looks like the issue was fixed in this latest release:

757 info run esbuild@0.14.17 postinstall { code: 0, signal: null }
759 info run esbuild@0.13.15 postinstall { code: 1, signal: null }

So you just need to somehow make sure you aren't installing esbuild < 0.14.17. Maybe one of your dependencies needs to update their esbuild version too?

Closing as fixed on esbuild's end.

[kgmmm]

Good catch! Just double checked this. Using node v16.13.2 via Snap and installing esbuild@0.13.15 failed. Using node v16.13.2 via Snap and installing esbuild@0.14.17 did indeed work. The conflict I was having came about from trying to do a SvelteKit init before hand, and then typing npm i esbuild@0.14.17, which was causing npm to install both esbuild@0.14.17 (which would succeed) and esbuild@0.13.15 (which would fail).

[aral]

In case it helps anyone else who stumbles on here, you will also see this exact same message if you somehow have npm installed but not node.

e.g., In my case, I was testing on a Windows machine under WSL2 where node was installed under Windows but not under the WSL2 Linux VM but the VM could still find npm.